Chapter 528: The Femme Fatale in the Double Life Story (27)
The return banquet was not pleasant because of Su Miaoer. Not long after the meal, Su Yu said goodbye and went back with Xie Qinglan.
The carriage was swaying, and Su Yu fell asleep leaning on Xie Qinglan without knowing when.
Xie Qinglan looked down at her with deep eyes. Although she was young, she had the vicissitudes of life.
The car was so quiet that even the sound of breathing was particularly obvious. Lan Ying breathed lightly and did not dare to look up at Xie Qinglan. Today's son-in-law made her a little scary.
"Lan Ying." Xie Qinglan suddenly spoke.
Lan Ying was startled and stood up quickly, but she forgot that this was a carriage and bumped into the roof with a bang.
Su Yu's eyelids moved, as if she was about to wake up. Xie Qinglan patted her shoulder and said slowly, "It's okay, go to sleep."
Su Yu fell asleep peacefully again.
Lan Ying covered her head and whispered, "What instructions does Master have?"
Xie Qinglan was silent: "Nothing."
Lan Ying was puzzled, but Xie Qinglan suddenly stopped talking. She didn't want to ask any more questions, so she lowered her head and wondered if she had done something that displeased her son-in-law.
Her thoughts quickly wandered, and Lan Ying remembered what Su Yu had told her. If nothing unexpected happened, rumors about Su Miaoer would spread on the streets tomorrow.
How could such a bad person as the eldest lady marry into the Duke's Mansion?
Xie Qinglan looked at Lan Ying silently, thinking that they were worthy of being master and servant. Even their smug and vicious expressions when doing bad things were exactly the same. If they had a tail behind them, it should have been raised up.
The people who were waiting at the entrance of the village had left at some point.
Xie Qinglan glanced through the small window and then looked away. When he saw those people in the morning, he was basically certain that they were the eldest prince's men. He had seen one of them by the eldest prince's side in his previous life.
In this life, the eldest prince should not have noticed me yet.
But in their previous life, whether in the court or in private, they were mortal enemies.
Xie Qinglan never figured out why the eldest prince was targeting him.
After he had power in his hands, he began to investigate the matter. Unfortunately, he died just before he could make some vague discoveries.
The specific reasons can only be known after he passes the imperial examination and becomes the top scholar and has established connections with the Prime Minister's Mansion.
There was a light snow outside the window. The carriage was driving steadily and leisurely on the road, and the charcoal basin in the carriage was burning hot.
No one spoke. Su Yu slept more soundly. Xie Qinglan adjusted his posture so that she could lean more comfortably. It was a warm and harmonious scene.
After the return party, the weather became colder.
Xie Qinglan spent less time at home and had to continue to go to the marquis' villa to receive instruction from great scholars in order to prepare for the imperial examination.
Su Yu straightened her clothes for her: "Husband, don't be lazy when you are outside. My brother is not a good student. Husband, don't let him lead you astray."
Xie Qinglan nodded: "No."
Su Yu sent him outside and reminded him, "It snowed heavily the day before yesterday. My husband, be careful on the road and don't slip."
"Well, you should be careful at home."
Su Yu stood at the door looking at Xie Qinglan's back, and the door next door suddenly opened.
Lin Xiuxiu was holding something in her arms. When she saw Su Yu, she subconsciously held the thing in her arms tighter and nodded unnaturally: "Thank you, madam."
Su Yu looked at her and condescended to ask, "Miss Lin, what are you going to do?"
Lin Xiuxiu looked even more unnatural: "Let's go to town and buy some things."
"It's so cold, why don't you wear more clothes, Miss Lin?" Su Yu glanced at her extremely thin waist. She was not afraid of freezing to death even though she wore so little in winter.
Lin Xiuxiu's eyes flashed, she clenched the things in her hands, said a few words in a hurry and ran away.
"Thank you for your concern, ma'am. I am not afraid of the cold."
Staring at Lin Xiuxiu's back, Su Yu's eyes became a little colder.
Lan Ying pouted in disgust: "Who doesn't know what she's thinking? As soon as the son-in-law left, she chased after him. She is so shameless. I don't know how her parents taught her."
Mrs. Lin walked to the door and heard this. She was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do: "Mrs. Xie, why are you up so early?"
Su Yu was wearing a fox fur cloak, her little face sunken in a circle of soft white fur. She raised her eyes slightly, nodded dignifiedly, and turned back to the house without saying a word.
Lan Ying also took out her anger on the Lin family because of Lin Xiuxiu, and said sarcastically: "No matter how early my daughter gets up, she can't get up as early as Miss Lin."
It was such a coincidence that Lin Xiuxiu went out after her brother-in-law left. She must have gotten up long ago and had been paying attention to what was going on here. When Lan Ying thought of this, she felt sick.
Mrs. Lin was even more embarrassed. She didn't dare to offend Su Yu, so she could only vent her anger on her confused sister-in-law like Lan Ying.
After returning home, Sister Lin found Brother Lin and whispered to him in the room: "Hurry up and find a husband for your eldest sister. She is so old, it is not a good thing to spend all day at home. Who would want a girl of that age to live with her brother and sister-in-law every day?"
Brother Lin was also distressed: "She doesn't want to, how can I persuade her?"
Sister Lin clicked her tongue and said, "Why are you trying to persuade her? Let your mother persuade her. She wanted to marry your eldest sister to the Xie family before, but the Xie family didn't like your eldest sister at all and married the daughter of the Marquis's Mansion instead. What are we waiting for?"
Sister Lin was in high spirits and started to talk to Brother Lin: "If you ask me, your sister is also stubborn. Although Xie Qinglan is good-looking and well-educated, she just doesn't like her. Maybe she won't even want to be his concubine. Not to mention that Madam Xie is the daughter of a marquis. She doesn't look like someone who is easy to get along with. If your sister really goes to be his concubine, she will be bullied to death."
Brother Lin frowned and said, "Then I'll tell mom later."
As they were talking, they heard a noise outside. Sister Lin looked through the window and whispered to Brother Lin, "Your sister is back. She is holding the sleeves she sewed two days ago. I guess she hasn't given them away yet."
Mrs. Lin sighed, "Why bother?"
The two houses were next to each other, so Su Yu and Lan Ying could also hear the noise of Lin Xiuxiu returning.
This amount of time is not enough to go back and forth from town. You really treat people like fools.
Lan Ying said with a spit, "Shameless thing."
Su Yu was lying on the bed reading a storybook without even lifting her eyelids. She didn't take Lin Xiuxiu seriously and asked about another matter instead: "How is Su Miaoer doing?"
Lan Ying had been paying attention and frowned when she heard this: "I don't know if that maid is timid or what, she has been silent for the past two days, and the eldest lady's wedding date is about to be set."
Lan Ying blamed herself: "It's all my fault. I didn't do the job that the young lady asked me to do."
Su Yu frowned slightly. She did not blame Lan Ying, but just felt that it was expected.
After getting married, although she could get rid of the Marquis's wife and Su Miaoer, the people who had been placed in the Marquis's Mansion were also out of control and out of reach.
"I don't blame you."
Lan Ying still blamed herself and made up her mind: "Miss, why don't I do it myself, there will be no problem."
Su Yu raised her hand to stop him: "No, someone will catch us."
The reason why Lan Ying was not sent at the beginning, but someone in Su Miaoer's hospital was asked to do this, was to avoid being caught.
Even if outsiders investigate, they can only trace the blame to Su Miaoer, which will make people think that she staged this drama herself and resorted to this desperate measure because she didn't want to marry into the Duke's Mansion.
"Let's do this for now, and we can talk about other things later. The New Year is coming soon, and even if we want to get married, it has to be after the New Year."
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